Salesforce Backup and Recovery in Australia: Essential for Resilience and Compliance
- David Long
- Sep 23
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 5
Introduction: Salesforce Doesn’t Guarantee Recovery
Salesforce is the backbone of customer operations for thousands of Australian enterprises, powering sales, service, and mission-critical processes. But here’s the gap most overlook: Salesforce does not guarantee data recovery.
Uptime is not resilience. Deleted, corrupted, or compromised data quickly outlives the recycle bin. Once that window closes, it’s gone.
For Australian enterprises, under CPS 230, the Essential Eight, and sovereignty rules, the answer is clear: independent Salesforce backup and recovery is essential.
Why Salesforce Data Is at Risk
Accidental Deletion
Bulk updates, admin errors, or user mistakes can erase thousands of records instantly. Salesforce’s recycle bin is temporary and insufficient for long-term protection.
Misconfigurations and Integrations
Modern Salesforce environments are highly connected. Misconfigured permissions, over-permissive OAuth tokens, or faulty third-party integrations can cause widespread corruption or data loss.
Insider and Malicious Activity
When an insider deletes or alters records deliberately, Salesforce provides no independent safeguard. Without a secure backup, recovery is impossible.
SaaS Supply Chain Failures
Even if Salesforce itself remains secure, vendor dependencies or connected applications can introduce risk. A breach in one integration can cascade into your CRM.
These risks don’t just threaten Salesforce data - they threaten compliance, resilience, and customer trust. That’s why independent Salesforce backup and recovery is essential for Australian enterprises.
The Australian Compliance Lens
The Compliance Mandate for Australian Enterprises
For Australian organisations, Salesforce backup and recovery is no longer just best practice - it’s a compliance requirement.
CPS 230 (APRA): Financial institutions must prove operational resilience, including evidence of independent recovery for critical SaaS platforms like Salesforce.
Essential Eight (ASD): Demands tamper-proof data recovery strategies attackers cannot alter or delete.
Data Sovereignty: Backup data must be stored within Australian jurisdiction, outside U.S. Cloud Act exposure.
Without independent Salesforce backup and recovery, meeting these standards is not only difficult - it’s impossible.
How Keepit Protects Salesforce - Brought to You by FullBackup
As an Elite Keepit Reseller in Australia, FullBackup enables organisations to deploy enterprise-grade Salesforce backup and recovery built for resilience, compliance, and sovereignty.
Keepit delivers:
✅ Immutable Recovery Points - Snapshots attackers cannot alter or delete.
✅ Independent Storage - Data sits outside Salesforce, safe from outages and compromise.
✅ Granular Restore Options - Recover single records, objects, or full environments in minutes.
✅ Always Accessible - Even if production or identity systems are down.
✅ Compliance-Ready - Meets CPS 230, Essential Eight, ISO 27001, and Australian sovereignty standards.
Immutable Recovery Points - Snapshots that cannot be altered, deleted, or encrypted.
Independent Storage - Data stored outside Salesforce’s infrastructure, safe from vendor outages.
Granular Restore Options - Recover single records, objects, or entire environments quickly.
Always Accessible - Recovery points remain available even if identity or production systems are down.
Audit-Ready - Built for CPS 230, Essential Eight, ISO 27001, and Australian sovereignty requirements.
Conclusion: Resilience Requires Independent Recovery
Salesforce is critical to business operations, but its native tools are not enough to guarantee recoverability. For Australian enterprises, the combination of regulatory pressure, compliance obligations, and operational risk makes independent backup and recovery essential.
As an Elite Resell Partner of Keepit, FullBackup enables organisations to deploy immutable, independent, and compliant Salesforce recovery - protection that can always be relied on, even when production systems fail.
👉 Book a Free Pilot to see how quickly your Salesforce data can be recovered with Keepit.
👉 Explore the full Salesforce Backup & Recovery page to see what’s protected, how restores work, and how it aligns with CPS 230 and the Essential Eight:
An important point, resilience often gets mistaken for uptime, and Salesforce is a perfect example of where that thinking falls short.
Independent backup and recovery is so important, without it organisations are left exposed
Great to see this being highlighted